160. Fodor, A Quest for a Non-Violent Russia, 141.
161. Fodor, A Quest for a Non-Violent Russia, 119.
162. The Autobiography of Countess Sophie Tolstoi, preface and notes by Vasilii Spiridonov, tr. S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf, Richmond, 1922, 67.
163. See Leah Bendavid-Val, Songs Without Words: The Photographs and Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy, Washington DC, 2007.
164. All information about the visit is taken from Laurence Kominz, ‘Pilgrimage to Tolstoy: Tokutomi Roka’s Junrei Kiko’, Monumenta Japonica, 41, 1 (1986), 51–101.
165. Letopis’ 2, 559.
166. Nikitina, Sof ’ya Tolstaya, 224–226.
167. Letopis’ 2, 596.
168. Orekhanov, V. G. Chertkov v zhizni L. N. Tolstogo, 53; Puzin, Dom-muzei, 76; Muratov, L. N. Tolstoi i V. G. Chertkov, 365.
169. T. N. Volkova, Tolstoi i ego blizkie, Moscow, 1986, 262.
170. Fodor, A Quest for a Non-Violent Russia, 165.
171. See Joy Thacker, Whiteway Colony: The Social History of a Tolstoyan Community, Stroud, 1993.
172. W. Gareth Jones, ed., Tolstoi and Britain, 14.
173. Orekhanov, V. G. Chertkov v zhizni L. N. Tolstogo, 64.
174. Fodor, A Quest for a Non-Violent Russia, 95–96.
175. Letopis’ 2, 635.
176. N. V. Ovsyannikov, ‘Epizod iz zhizni L. N. Tolstogo’, Russkoe obozrenie, 11 (1896).
177. Walter Kerr, The Shabunin Affair: An Episode in the Life of Leo Tolstoy, Ithaca, 1982, 182.
178. Father Ioann was canonised in 1990.
179. Letopis’ 2, 644; Tolstaya, Dnevniki, vol 2, 109.
180. I. V. Petrovitskaya, ‘’Tolstovskii s’ezd russkikh zhurnalistov. 1908 god’, Iz istorii russkoi literatury i zhurnalistiki: Ezhgodnik, ed. I. V. Petrovitskaya and I. E. Prokhorov, Moscow, 2009, 243–245.
181. Tolstaya, Dnevniki, vol. 2, 110.
182. Letopis’ 2, 700.
183. Opul’skaya 2, 261.
184. Letopis’ 2, 701.
185. Letopis’ 2, 705.
186. V. Bulgakov, O Tolstom, Tula, 1964, 283.
187. The above account of Tolstoy’s departure from Yasnaya Polyana, death and burial draws on V. I. Nevskii, ed., Smert’ Tolstogo: po novym materialam, Moscow, 1929, B. Meilakh, Ukhod i smert’ L’va Tolstogo, Moscow, 1960, Uil’yam Nikell, ‘Smert’ Tolstogo’, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 44 (2000), 43–61, Pål Kolstø, ‘Mass for a Heretic? The Controversy over Lev Tolstoi’s Burial’, Slavic Review, 60, 1 (2001), 75–95, and William Nickell, ‘Transfigurations of Tolstoy’s Final Journey: The Church and the Media in 1910’, Tolstoy Studies Journal, 17 (2006), 32–51.
Epilogue: Patriarch of the Bolsheviks
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